In less than two years Dale Potter, senior vice president and CIO at The Ottawa Hospital has weaned staff off compiling patient files by using paper printouts to accessing their records using iPads. How? See mHealth: What happened in IS?… Read moreHospital records: paper to electronic access in less than two years (Canada)
More analysis of the proposed ‘ACO Rule’ from CMS from Vince Kuraitis on his e-Care Management blog. His eight ‘first impressions’: 1. The bar has been set high…very high. (At least 50% of primary care physicians must be meaningful user… Read moreMore on ACOs and Medicare (US)
Effective home telehealth monitoring of lung disease–COPD and other chronic diseases–has been elusive. An Israeli company with a US office, Deep Breeze, has adapted its hospital-based vibration response imaging (VRI) technology, approved by the FDA in 2007, for home use. It… Read moreBreeze@home to monitor lung conditions
$20,000 is ‘microfinancing’ in contrast to the larger sums that ‘angels’ or VCs–or even the ‘FFF’ (friends, family and ‘fools’) typically invest, but the innovative idea of RockHealth is to build bridges between big-time healthcare providers and young entrepreneurs with hot connected health ideas. The founder,… Read moreIncubating healthcare IT startups
